Flooding: Stop blocking gutters with garbage – Abia Govt cautions residents

Abia State authorities has advised residents to halt blocking gutters with garbage.

The Commissioner for Environment, Mr. Philomen Ogbonna, made the telephone successful Umuahia on Saturday after monitoring this month’s cleanable up exercise, said the authorities authorities was committed to prevention of illness outbreak and flooding.

The commissioner who was represented by  Mrs Happiness Akpulonu, the Head of Department, Pollution Control and Environmental Health successful the ministry, expressed interest astatine the debased compliance level successful the June 2026 cleanable up exercise.

Ogbonna who condemned the cognition of immoderate traders successful Orie Ugba Market, Umuahia, wherever a garbage dump was discovered, warned that the authorities authorities whitethorn use unit against specified biology instrumentality offenders henceforth.

The commissioner charged sanitary inspectors successful the authorities to summation their sensitization and monitoring exercises successful municipality and agrarian communities, to guarantee that nary portion of the authorities is exposed to flooding oregon illness outbreak.

Also speaking connected the sanitation exercise, the Chairman, Abia State House of Assembly Committee connected Environment, Kalu Mba Nwoke, urged the Umuahia Capital Development Authority and different acrophobic authorities to guarantee that blocked gutters connected the Owerri Ro...